Synonyms for increase
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Enhance — to multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific
enhance, rise, raise US, grow, heighten, expand, augment, extend, enlarge, build, multiply, spread, elevate, proliferate, dilate, teem, propagate dated, aggrandize rare, aggrandise UK
2. Improve
improve, accelerate, go up, develop, shoot up, prolong, advance, up informal, progress, wax, thrive
4. Accrue
Noun
1. Growth
growth, increment, expansion, improvement, development, augmentation, extension, amplification, accretion, crescendo
Definitions
- v. 1
To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- v. 2
(of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money.
- n. 1
An amount by which a quantity is increased.
An increase of about 30% in hits on the website.
- n. 2
For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
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To add is to increase by adjoining or uniting: in distinction from multiply, which is to increase by repeating. To augment a thing is to increase it by any means, but this word is seldom used directly of material objects; we do not augment a house, a farm, a nation, etc.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- grow "I will grow many trees here", he said to himself.
- rise We rise together, stronger with each step forward.
- enhance Algeria needs to enhance its regional connectivity.
- improve This app will help you improve your English level.
- accelerate Yanni wanted to accelerate his learning of Berber.
By length
- 2 letters
- up1
- 3 letters
- add1, wax1, eek
- 4 letters
- grow1, rise1, gain1, fill1, soar1, teem1
- 5 letters
- build1, raise1, swell1
- 6 letters
- growth1, spread1, expand2, extend2, gather2, thrive1, accrue2, upturn2, dilate2
- 7 letters
- improve2, develop3, advance2, enhance2, elevate3, adjunct2, augment2, enlarge2, prolong2, amplify3, inflate2, magnify3, thicken2, greaten
- 8 letters
- addition3, progress2, multiply3, heighten2
- 9 letters
- expansion3, extension3, inflation3, accession3, intensify4, propagate3, increment3, aggravate3, accretion3, crescendo3
- 10 letters
- supplement3, accelerate4, accumulate4, exacerbate4, aggrandize3, aggrandise
- 11 letters
- development4, improvement3, acquisition4, enlargement3, proliferate4
- 12 letters
- augmentation4, exacerbation5
- 13 letters
- amplification5
- 14 letters
- multiplication5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (expand2 = 2 syllables).